Chapter IV: Introduction: , 482

CHAP. I. Of the different kinds of taxes, 484

CHAP. II. Of proportional taxes, and their proper object, 486

CHAP. III. How proportional taxes are drawn back by the 490
industrious; and how that drawing back is the only reason
why taxes raise the prices of commodities,

CHAP. IV. Of cumulative taxes, 495

CHAP. V. Of the inconveniences which proceed from 500
proportional taxes, and of the methods of removing them,

CHAP. VI. Cumulative and proportional taxes compared with 517
one another, and farther examined,

CHAP. VII. Consequences of taxes, when the amount of them 523
is properly applied,

CHAP. VIII. Of the extent of taxation, 527

CHAP. IX. The consequences of an abolition of taxes, 542

CHAP. X. Are taxes a spur to industry, as some pretend? 556

CHAP. XI. Considerations upon land taxes, with some 561
observations upon those of England and France,

CHAP. XII. Miscellaneous questions upon taxes, 577

CHAP. XIII. Recapitulation of the fourth book, 593

CHAP. XIV. Recapitulation of the fifth book, 637

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